Archives for March 12, 2014

‘”With all the people saying I couldn’t make it, all the downers who said I wasn’t big enough, that the diabetes would get in the way,” he says, “I’ll use all that as a fire in my belly to prove them wrong.”‘

‘“We came out flying,” said Sabres forward Matt Ellis, who played his 300th NHL game. “We had some good spurts. The trend with our team is we have some real good spells, and then we put ourselves in trouble or shoot ourselves in the foot, whether it be a bad penalty or a missed assignment. “We did certain things to let them take over the hockey game. That’s why we’re kind of sitting here trying to figure out what went wrong.”’

‘“When I found out about my situation, I talked to 4 to 5 doctors and then everybody said the same thing about how I would be fine,” Numminen said Tuesday. “You learn what limitations or restrictions that you have, if any, and you get confident about finding the knowledge you need from as many sources as you can.”’

‘“I don’t think it really hit me until they wheeled me into the operating room,” Weber said. “The doctor was so calm and had such a great bedside, or operating tableside, manner that they had me relaxed.’

‘“Their confidence is a little bit rattled right now,” Nolan said. “But … through tough times like this you find out true characters of certain players. Through some ashes sometimes there rises some people.”‘

‘Weber took an aspirin and went to the rink to see the Predators’ and Minnesota Wild’s training staffs.“A half an hour I was on the operating table,” he said.’

‘But there is an essential reality: They traded arguably the three best players off what was already a last-place team. This is what bottoming out looks like. And make no mistake, this is now indisputably the least talented Sabres roster in the franchise’s history.’

Nashville Predators top Buffalo Sabres (Nashville Tennessean)
Shea Weber’s wrist shot as nasty as his slapshot (Nashville Tennessean)
Photo gallery (NashvillePredators.com)
Photo gallery (Sabres.com)
Photo gallery (Buffalo News)

‘Hutton staved off a Buffalo attack that controlled possession and outshot Nashville 11-5 in the second period on the way to a 25-24 advantage for the game.’

‘Drew Stafford scored the lone goal for the Sabres, losers in four of their last five. Jhonas Enroth allowed three goals on 23 shots in the setback.’